Holder for use in repairing eyeglasses.



0. C. KRAEHMER.

HOLDER FOR USE IN REPAIRING EYEGLASSES.

APPLICATION, FILED. MAY 27,1918.

1,301,275, Patented Apr. 22,1919.

I 1T ATS HOLDER FOR USE IN REPAIRING EYEGLASSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

Application filed May 27, 1918: Serial No. 236,960.

b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR C. Knsnrmmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galena, in the county of Jo Daviess and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Use in Repairing Eyeglasses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a device for supporting eye glasses, while in process of repair, and the general object of the invention is to provide a very simple, easily manipulated, and convenient device of this character, whereby a pair of eye glasses may be held in an upright position while fittings, such as nose guards and guard strings are being applied to the eye glasses, so that the operator may have both hands free to do the work. V V

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character including a relatively fixed abutment or clamping member and a coacting spring-pressed button or clamping member between which the eye glasses may be placed and provide means whereby the size of the space between the clamping members may be adjusted.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section; and

Fig. 3 Fig. 2.

Referring to these drawings, 10 designates the base block which may be made of wood, metal or any other suitable material, which is approximately 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, but of course may be made of any suitable dimensions. Attached to or forming part of this base block is a longitudinally extending member 11 which constitutes an abutment or clamping member and which is fixed to the base block and is provided with a transversely extending bore 12 and preferably with cups 13 for the reception of minute parts which are to be used in repairing the glasses. Coacting with the abutment 11 and resting upon the upper face of the member 10 is a second clamping member 14 which is shiftable toward or from the is a section on the line 3-3 of clamping member 11. To this end, a pin 15 passes through the bore 12 and has screwthreaded engagement with the member 14.

This pin constitutes a push button whereby the member 14 may be shifted away from the member 11. For the purpose of urging the member 14 against the member 11 I. provide a leaf spring 16 which is outwardly bowed, the ends of the spring bearing against the edge of the clamping member 14 and the middle of the spring being connected to a screw-threaded pin 17 which extends loosely through a bore 18 in the member 14 and has screw-threaded engagement with the member 11. The pins 15 and 17 are disposed midway of the length of the members 11 and 14.

It will be obvious now that by pressing in on the pin 15, the clamping member 14 will be forced outward against the pressure of the spring 16 until the clamping member strikes the head of the pin 17 or until the head of the pin 15 comes in contact with the edge face of the member 11. The eve glasses are then inserted in the manner illustrated in the drawing so that their edges may be gripped between the clamping members 11 and 14 upon a release of the push button 15 and then the eye glass will be supported in a vertical position and in a position convenient to the fitting on of guards, springs, and other eye-glass parts.

It is extremely difficult to hold a pair of eye glasses in fitting new guards or guard strings and it is to overcome this inconvenience that I have provide this device. By holding the pair of eye glasses as illus' trated, the operator may use both hands in fitting on the parts.

While this device may be made entirely of wood, it will be obvious that other material may be used and that the confronting surfaces of the clamping members may be covered with felt or other suitable material. if desired.

Having described my invention. what I claim is:

1. An eye-glass holder of the character described comprising a fiat base having an upwardly extending clamping abutment on the upper face of the base, a clamping member slidably mounted upon the upper face of the base and having an edge parallel to and confronting the adjacent edge of the clamping abutment, and a spring urging the movable clamping member against the fixed clamping abutment.

2. An eye-glass holder of the character described comprising a flat base having a longitudinally extending fiat clamping abutment on the upper face of the base extending longitudinally thereof, a flat clan'iping member resting upon the upper face of the base and slidably mounted thereon and con fronting the clamping abutment, the clamping member and abutment having parallel confronting edge faces, and a spring urging the movable clamping member against the fixed clamping abutment.

3. An eye glass holder of the character described comprising a base having an upwardly extending fixed clan'iping abutment upon its upper surface, a movable clamping member resting upon the upper face of the base and confronting the fixed clamping abutment, a push button in the form of a pin passing through the abutment and engaging the clamping member, a pin passing loosely through the clamping member and engaging the abutment, and a spring carried by the latter pin and urging the clamping member toward the abutment.

4. An eye-glass holder of the character described comprising a flat base having an upwardly extendingfixed abutment upon its upper surface, a movable clamping member resting flat upon the upper face of the base and confronting the fixed clamping abutment, a spring urging the movable clamping member toward the abutment, and a push button passing through the fixed clamping abutment and engaging the movable member whereby the movable member may be shifted away from the abutment against the force of the spring.

5. An eye-glass holder comprising a flat base, oppositely disposed parallel fiat clamping members mounted upon the base, the members being relatively movable toward or from each other, a spring urging the members into clamping relation, and a push button operatively connected to one of said members for shifting the members relatively away from each other.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. OSCAR C. KR'AEHMER.

Witnesses:

OSCAR G. KRAEHMER, CECELIA RAYMOND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latent.

Washington, D. 0. i 

